Medical Wellness

Medico: Smarter Use of Medical Data

That's an important step on the path to personalized medicine. Medico is one of six application scenarios of the research program Theseus of the German Federal…

Cellular aging increases risk of heart attack and early death

Researchers have long speculated that the shortening of telomeres increases the risk of heart attack and early death. Now a large-scale population study in…

Freeze-dried heart valve scaffolds hold promise for heart valve replacement

Shangping Wang and colleagues from Leibniz University, Corlife, and Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, studied various strategies for freeze-drying…

Challenges of identifying cognitive abilities in severely brain-injured patients

Only by employing complex machine-learning techniques to decipher repeated advanced brain scans were researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell able to…

Oxygen-Deprived Baby Rats Fare Worse If Kept Warm

Premature infants’ immature lungs and frequent dips in blood pressure make them especially vulnerable to a condition called hypoxia in which their tissues…

Young adults allowed to stay on parents' health insurance have improved access to care

This analysis indicates the potential positive impact of a key provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). The study appears in…

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